rijksdag

Dutch

Etymology

From rijk (“empire”) +‎ -s- +‎ dag (“representative assembly”).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: rijks‧dag

Noun

rijksdag m (plural rijksdagen)

  1. an imperial diet, notably:
    1. of the Holy Roman Empire
    2. of imperial (Hohenzollern) Germany
    3. of the Third Reich, Nazi Germany
    4. as upper house (senate) in the empire Japan since the Meiji reform
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